bigfoot Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 i have a mx83 cressida and on the way home on friday it started missing under load. long story short: epic amounts of oil leaking from the distributor cap, pulled the dissy out to replace the seal and can't pull it apart. has anybody replaced the seal on these or is it a replace the whole thing. this thing is my daily and i live 17km from work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 sure its not the O-ring on the body of the distributor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatestben Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Think these can leak internally, but yes did you check the oring on the outside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Yea rotator shaft seal internally, will probably be a roll pin through that gear on the bottom and then the shaft is press fit on the bearing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoot Posted June 30, 2009 Author Share Posted June 30, 2009 sure its not the O-ring on the body of the distributor? definately not the o-ring because there is oil inside the distributor Yea rotator shaft seal internally, will probably be a roll pin through that gear on the bottom and then the shaft is press fit on the bearing no roll pin, took the rotor off but had no luck in taking off reluctor(cant remember what it called but the steel block that tells the ecu when it is at tdc etc) looks pressed on and pick up inside says DO NOT REMOVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikuni Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Sounds tricky. How about clean, degrease, chuck it back together so its running again and start tracking down a second hand one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoot Posted June 30, 2009 Author Share Posted June 30, 2009 Sounds tricky. How about clean, degrease, chuck it back together so its running again and start tracking down a second hand one? thats the plan at this stage. im making a pipe going from the hole in bottom of distributor to the dipstick hole and store dipstick in car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegreatestben Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Haha that's funny and clever. Kudos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfoot Posted June 30, 2009 Author Share Posted June 30, 2009 my boss sugested that after he couldnt figure it out either (im a mechanic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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